Senior Software Engineer
Forum VenturesResponsibilities
- Architect, build, and maintain scalable backend services, robust APIs, and agentic workflows.
- Contribute to full-stack product experiences that connect complex backend data to intuitive interfaces.
- Work with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems processing large-scale organic data.
- Improve reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across cloud infrastructure.
- Own complex features from problem definition through production delivery.
- Collaborate with product and data science teams to clarify requirements, assess trade-offs, and make architecture decisions.
- Use AI tools to improve development velocity, code quality, and internal workflows.
Requirements
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade software.
- Strong backend development experience with Python, Ruby, Go, Java, or similar languages.
- Hands-on experience with document databases such as MongoDB and analytical data formats such as Parquet.
- Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using Astro, Apache Airflow, LangChain, or similar tools.
- Practical understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and message queues or event streaming using tools such as Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka.
- Strong foundations in computer science, software architecture, performance optimization, and scalable data-intensive systems.
- Familiarity with deploying and monitoring applications in cloud environments, with Azure preferred.
- Experience with React and TypeScript is highly valued.
- Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent deep practical experience.
- Ability to work independently amid ambiguity, take ownership, make pragmatic trade-offs, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Full-time hybrid role based in Ottawa, Ontario, with four days per week in the office.
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About Forum Ventures
Forum Ventures® is the leading early-stage fund, accelerator and venture studio for B2B tech startups. Founded in 2014 and based in New York, San Francisco, and Toronto, we’re on a mission to make the startup journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. To date, we have made 500+ pre-seed and seed investments globally. Those founders have gone on to raise $1B+ in follow-on funding from funds like Kleiner Perkins, Andreesen Horowitz, General Catalyst, NEA, Emergence Capital, Menlo Ventures, Craft Ventures, Founders Fund and more. To learn more visit Forumvc.com. Looking for more founder-focused advice? Subscribe to The Midnight Text -- a bi-weekly newsletter that provides honest answers to the unspoken questions that keep founders awake at (mid)night. https://midnighttext.substack.com/